US EditionHong Kong Election: Turnout Near Record Low Amid Anger over Deadly Fire
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In Hong Kong, eleven days after the huge Taipo fire, just under one out of three Hong Kongers (31.9%) took part in the general election on Sunday, 7 December. It was a matter of renewing the 90 seats in parliament (LegCo), all of which were necessarily attributed to "patriot" MPs, i.e. pro-Pekin.
Hong Kong election: Turnout near record low amid anger over deadly fire
About a third of Hong Kong 's registered voters elected a new 90-member legislature Sunday, a turnout that avoided an embarrassment for the government but fell short of a ringing endorsement of an electoral system revamp that eliminated the once feisty opposition in the Chinese territory.
Under the mourning of the fire in a residential complex that the week before ended with the lives of at least 159 people and the irony control of Chinese authoritarianism, the Hong Kongers came to the polls this Sunday on the occasion of the elections to the Legislative Council –the parliamentary organ of the territory. Again, these have been expressed with the only form of tolerated protest: silence. The polls have cast a rickety 31.9% turnout,…
Less than a third of Hong Kong's registered voters voted in the 7 December general elections. And because they could only choose candidates endorsed by the Electoral Committee as "patriots" – that is, pro-Pekin. This election is the last sign of the funeral of democracy in Hong Kong.
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